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Challenging

An obscure pleasure, one only accessible to sensitive minds.

Medium

The cuts and drapes speak of sun-baked streets, old plazas, and afternoons that meander towards the horizon.

Medium

Borderline insane.... but on the right side of aesthetics.

Medium

Why would a leviathan hunt down a single minnow?

Easy

They say, 'I'm corporate, but still hip.'

Challenging

Whistling a new melody into existence. A dance step in the mud. The rasp of a hand-plane against cedar. Wonders yet unmapped.

Challenging

Infused with transcendant meaning, somewhere between a symbol and the thing it represents, the junior negotiator's conception of the gap escapes definition.

Challenging

A poorly conceived, underbaked hodgepodge of old and modern Developed World languages -- mostly from Mircea and Ile-de-Söze.

Heroic

Crack the negotiator's dialect.

Formidable

Like the master sword-makers of Tsun's Arc, he is a relic of times long past, an initiate in some forgotten craft now performed in seconds by machines.

Challenging

Picture a hundred guitars connected to a single amp, strumming all at once.

Challenging

Symbols, repeated over and over -- a quiet process of attrition.

Challenging

Malignant growths, forever squirming against each other.

Formidable

Hints of a new life looming -- unless you occlude it.

Challenging

It's a talisman, not a functional object. It's imbued with whatever Ramses feels towards you.

Easy

Medium

The mouth muscles contorting into every shape they know, producing random morphemes that latch onto words from every language floating around the brain.

Medium

Haunting images of torture surround your mind. In seconds, imagined people deform into blistering, moaning creatures -- writhing in what's left of their insides.

Medium

Instrument in hand on his sickbed, he could easily be a dying melancholy poet strumming away on his lute.

Medium

Something tells you your head would fill with nasty images right now if your imagination was a little more vivid.

Medium

Galaxies of desperation sucked into the pupil's widening void.

Easy

A marionette with strings yanked, then suddenly severed.

Easy

Entranced. A reptile in the throes of worship.

Trivial

For now, this will do. You've left a mark on this space.

Medium

Don't deny potential pleasures -- revel in the excesses offered by the material world!

Medium

Express yourself or die boring.

Easy

A part of you left behind, shining bright across the room.

Easy

Have you considered engaging with the visual arts?

Formidable

Medium

An intricate configuration that reminds you of the night sky.

Medium

A cheat? There lies the scoundrel's way. No thrill in that, no panache!

Medium

The bones of the plot are set. Already you can feel muscle and sinew begin to weave themselves around the frame.

Challenging

Just like the autumn fireworks you used to watch from your window as a child.

Challenging

A good poet listens more than they speak.

Challenging

Poetry's easy. Make it short, make it vague. Speak in rhyme.

Medium

Translucent and grotesque, like an electronic gecko molt. It will never be skin again.

Easy

In another life it would've been a serpent.

Medium

It's like she's handing you a trophy cup with the corpse of a small animal in it.

Medium

Lightly, like an artefact he's both drawn to and afraid of.

Legendary

An insane thought flits across your consciousness, to be kept absolutely to yourself.

Formidable

A man with access to more of humanity's secrets than nearly anyone, and yet the simple pleasure of a good pop song eludes him.

Medium

The sign for the ritual of death to begin.

Medium

Strange man. Strange wishes. Strange destination.

Medium

A name whispered among tutors and veterans, invoked like a demon from a lost mythology.

Challenging

An unplumbed abyss, haunted by strange and incomprehensible monsters.

Medium

Cue your main theme -- synth-driven, with a few woodwinds and an upright bass tossed in for organic effect.

Medium

Grounded, wet trail, retreated into his shell... not bad at all.

Medium

An effulgent burst of colours, the blast passing through buildings, turning bodies to particulate matter.

Medium

Spoken like an artist admiring a rival's technique.

Medium

Like a dead octopus smothered and forgotten about.